About the author

My name is Donovan Brown and I am a Principal DevOps Manager with Microsoft with a background in application development. I also run one of the Nation’s fastest growing online registration sites for motorsports events DLBRacing.com. When I am not writing software I race cars for fun. DLBRacing.com has given me the opportunity to combine my two passions writing software and racing cars.

Problem:
My code lens does not see references to properties in my MVC views .cshtml files.
Solution:
Install the Razor Generator extension.
Explanation:
While watching a great deep dive of Code Map by Jean-Marc Prieur he mentioned the Razor Generator as a way to enable features in Cod... [More]

Updated:
With update 2 the deployer account no longer as to be an admin on the machine. The account simply needs to correct permissions to deploy the desired components.
Problem:
When I attempt to register my deployer I get a 401 unauthorized error.
Solution:
Make sure the ... [More]

While preparing my Demo for TechEd North America 2014 on Release Management I ran into a challenge that required me to add additional custom tools. I thought I would blog about one of the tools I decided to add.
One of the goals of my Release Management demo was to deploy to Azure which is an amazi... [More]